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Was formt das Selbstverständnis von Individuen und Gruppen? Diese interdisziplinäre Sammlung untersucht psychologische, soziologische und kulturwissenschaftliche Dimensionen von Identitätsbildung, Zugehörigkeit und dem Wandel persönlicher und kollektiver Identitäten.
Peter Jordan / Paul Woodman (eds.)
Place-Name Changes
Proceedings of the Symposion in Rome, 17–18 November 2014
Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research
Languages are promoted by political powers and are dependent on them. In a historical dimension languages come and go depending on political support. Place names as elements of language are part of this historical fluctuation. Due to their symbolic role as markers of geographical features, territories and space-related identities, however, they are even more exposed to political change.
At any time the replacement of the dominant […]
Peter Jordan / Paul Woodman (eds.)
Confirmation of the Definitions
Proceedings of the 16th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Hermagor, 5–7 June 2014
Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research
The term exonym was first used by the British toponymist Marcel AUROUSSEAU (1957) and – interestingly enough – the term endonym was coined only later (1975), by the Austrian Slavist Otto KRONSTEINER, even though endonym is the basic and primary concept, and endonyms prevail by far in number.
The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN), whose main task is the international […]
Peter Jordan / Paul Woodman (eds.)
The Quest for Definitions
Proceedings of the 14th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Corfu, 23–25 May 2013
Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research
Why is it that the topic of exonyms, and more precisely the endonym / exonym divide, attracts so much interest and is so much disputed? It is perhaps because this divide arises when a geographical name is considered within the relationship between a name-using community and the feature bearing this name – is the feature marked by the name »ours’ or theirs’«
This is a highly political, sociological and cultural-geographical issue which […]